you make it look so easy. I haven't always been a girly girl and I barely wear make up just on the basis that i don't know what to do and i have always like the smoky eye look and when i try it i look so horrid and i have watched other tutorials and they make it look so complex and you have to use so many specific shades and brands and i'm poor so i can't afford that but you make it look so easy and simple that i think i could do my own make up for my wedding in july and i want a smoky green look to go with the teal for the bridesmaid dresses and the turquoise for the groomsman shirts and i might add a silver glitter eyeliner for the top lip since i'm making my hubby to be wear silver but you have made it so easy and simply and i thank you so much :)

Thanks so much for making this video! I've watched loads of smokey eye videos before as im hopeless at them , but usally girls just blabber on about what porducts they've used. Which is usally about like 10! You made it so much easier and simpler to understand and gave alernatives if you don't have the proper tools. Thanks soo much , added to my favourites now!:)xxx

Thank you soo much! I have just never been able to do this myself (I'm an absolute beginner) but you have made this very simple and gave me much more confidence to try a little more daring colours!
Thanks for making this very helpful video! xx

You are soo good at teaching. I have watched tons of videos on smokey eyes but no one gave these simple tips of aiming for a "V" and the lighter/darker introduction to shades.
The only problem i have is no matter what I do to set the eyeliner on the waterline, it never stays. I have the same urban decay eyeliner but it fades away really quick. I guess my eyes don't like it :(

HI! sorry i took so long with this, i did the video a while ago so i had to rewatch it to see which brushes i used lol. seems like i used 3 inexpensive brushes for this tutorial :). the first was the Sonia Kashuk small eyeshadow brush, the second (the pencil brush) was the POSH small crease brush (it comes in a duo with a bigger version of it) and the last brush (that i used for the crease and highlight) is the Sonia Kashuk Large Crease Brush, both of the S.K brushes are the white handle ones. :

Over a year ago when I was just using to use eye shadows I watched this video . before this video the idea of using more that 1 eye shadow ( especially one that wasn't nude) seemed like an impossible!! Now it's just so simple . I had never even heard of a crease or a brow bone before i started watching youtube..

I really like this video I am such a nube when it comes to doing anything like this with my eyes, but I want to get better at it so I will try your technique and see if it works for me. Thanks for making this video you make it look so easy I hope it is. Alright l8rs.

Thank you, finally an easy smokey eye tutoral! I tried a couple but they always used the eyeshadows unique names, and specific brushes and since I didnt have the same product as them it was nearly impossible to compare by just the color through a usually bad quality video. Learned technique very well too through this. Not bad for my first time, gonna practice using what I learned in this video!

@theedeadlydangerous There's tons of things you can use instead :) Some foundation,eyeliner(you can blend it over your lid to make a base), cream eyeshadow, regular face primer, any of these,it doesn't have to be specifically an eyeshadow base, basically you just want something that will make the eyeshadow stick. And even then if you have dry lids you dont really need a base :) Hope that helps, thank you so much for watching :D

I have to say, I watched 8 videos today trying to learn the smokey eye. This was the first one that I attempted and was able to complete nicely! You explaining the V shape, or C made all the difference. :) Thanks for your help!

omg i just watched another "smokey eye for beginners" video and it was complicated! when you were done, i was like "thats it?" you are the smokey eye fairy! thank you for making a video for actual beginners! ^_^